Following the release last week of the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch, early purchasers are scrambling to find protection for their delicate screens. In addition to the usual wear and tear you can expect for portable consoles, some people report just docking the Switch — which, we remind you, is what the what the console is designed to …

Fitbit is adding yet another fitness tracker to its portfolio today: Say hello to the $149 Alta HR. In case you hadn’t gathered so already, it’s a Fitbit Alta with a heart rate sensor snuck in. That makes it what Fitbit calls the “world’s slimmest” wrist-worn tracker with a continuous heart rate sensor. (In terms …

The New Glenn itself is still years away from its maiden voyage. In fact, the factory where it will be built is itself still under construction in Cape Canaveral, Florida. While the rocket itself is being constructed, the BE-4 engines will undergo rigorous certification at Blue Origin's West Texas-based test site. For his part, Bezos is confident that the ship will be ready and delivering goods to the moon by the end of the decade.

Like the Xbox One and PS4 controllers, the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers use Bluetooth to communicate with the console. What that means is that you can use Nintendo’s gamepads to play the latest Halo game on PC, hook them up to your phone or tablet, or control your Sims on a Mac by syncing them up to your Apple computer and using gamepad mapping software.

The Switch, Nintendo’s new phablet console, was a big bet, but perhaps not a smart one . Despite being marketed as a step into the future, it launched with more hardware issues and irritating design flaws than playable titles. As such, fans who just plunked down $300 are already rolling up their sleeves to build solutions to make their shiny new investment work the way it ought to.

IBM's Watson is about to get cozy with Salesforce's Einstein. The two tech giants announced a partnership Monday that will give Salesforce customers direct access to structured and unstructured data from Watson's artificial intelligence platform. Additionally, IBM will begin using the Salesforce Service Cloud internally.

Amazon's Echo speakers and other Alexa devices can already control your Outlook.com calendar , but what about your schedule at work? You're covered there, too. Alexa now supports Office 365's calendar functions, giving you a hands-free way of checking on your next meeting or scheduling that all-important business lunch. This won't see too much use right away when most offices aren't exactly teeming with Echo speakers. However, that's likely part of the point -- this gives the corporate crowd an excuse to bring the Echo into the workplace, even if it's just in private offices (open spaces will likely require multi-voice support ).

One of the first missions you're tasked with in "Breath of the Wild," before the game's massive open world is open to you, is reaching a shrine in an area that's simply too cold for Link to go. He starts freezing to death quickly, and it's solved only by constantly restoring lost health or, as luck would have it, by cooking a meal with hot peppers. You can simply simmer one directly in a cooking pot, or you can cook it with other ingredients.

There’s an odd asymmetry to the Joy-Con button layout, and the reason is that when held horizontally, each one can act as a standalone mini gamepad with a button layout reminiscent of the Super Nintendo controller. (The Switch comes with a wrist-strap peripheral designed to also extrude the L / R buttons. It does help in some cases, but it’s not entirely necessary. I’d rather leave them at home and keep the things I’m carrying with me to a minimum.) For classic Nintendo titles, that means (theoretically at least) you can do local multiplayer out of the box, without buying additional accessories. Snipperclips , a Switch launch title that Nintendo will offer in the eShop for $20, also makes good use of the setup.

TechCrunch reader Hoan Do sent us a tip that Facebook Messenger is showing some users a Reactions option. When you hover over messages friends have sent in a chat thread, you can tap the emoji button to pick from attaching a little thumbs-up Like, thumbs-down Dislike, or a heart-eyes, lol, wow, sad, or angry emoji. Everyone in the thread will then see that Reaction counted below the specific message you attached it to, and you can tap to see a full list of who left which Reaction.

President Donald Trump has signed another executive order limiting immigration to the US, this time temporarily banning citizens from six predominantly Muslim nations. The biggest difference between this order and the one issued in late January are that Iraq is not among the countries included in the travel ban. The order will also suspend the refugee program and lower the total number of refugees the US will accept to 50,000 per year, less than half of the 110,000 cap set by President Barack Obama's administration.

The GSMA’s Innovation City at MWC created a space to reveal some of the most cutting-edge mobile-enabled products and services in the world today. There was plenty of spectacle worthy tech including connected vehicles (even a rickshaw), a robot playing a drumkit and immersive VR experiences. Yet some of the most interesting are those that solve social or environmental problems where other methods are inefficient or ineffective. Here’s a sample of those showcased:

Both index providers have said they are reviewing Snap 's inclusion. Were Snap to be added to indexes such as the S&P 500 Index or the MSCI USA Index, then managers of stock index portfolios will have to buy its shares and other investors, whose performance is tracked against such indexes, would likely follow suit.

It’s an early win for the Switch, especially since Nintendo’s previous record holder for two-day sales was the incredibly popular Wii. While its hard to compare without exact sales numbers, Nintendo announced at the time that the Wii sold over 600,000 units in the first eight days in the Americas, a figure the company would no doubt like to surpass. The Wii would go on to ship over 100 million units, and remains one of the most popular consoles ever shipped.

Ceres’s bright spots have been an enticing mystery ever since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began approaching the dwarf planet in the spring of 2015. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) suggests the brightest of those shiny splotches—located within the enormous Occator crater in the northern hemisphere—is even more interesting than we thought. This region was probably a hotspot for cryovolcanic activity in the not-too-distant past.

If change is the only constant, then finding ways to not only keep up with change but also get ahead of the impact of change, should also be a constant. Six Sigma's approach, tools, and techniques can allow companies of any size, product, service, or industry to do just that. Improving processes and quality and reducing costs should be an ongoing focus of all businesses. This constant need for companies to improve what they do, and how they do it, establishes Six Sigma is necessary for continued success.

All that said, this new study linking an active sex life with better job performance is a classic situation of correlation-not-causation. You could easily assume that people who have more sex are already leading happier lives or, at the very least, enjoying a happier marriage. These social factors are undoubted related to job performance, so it’s hard to say definitively whether the study’s subjects did better at work because they had more sex or because they’re simply happier, more productive people for any number of reasons.

Breath of the Wild , the 19th game in the Zelda franchise, has been universally praised for its massive (and, sorry, breathtaking ) open-world environments, and for injecting life back into a 30-year-old franchise. But something else sets the Nintendo Switch’s moonshot launch title apart from previous installations: The Hero of Time has a goddamn iPhone.

It's been around a year since Fitbit unveiled the Alta , its first stab at a wearable that's both thin and attractive. Now Fitbit is introducing a new model that delivers one of its most requested features: heart-rate tracking. The $150 Alta HR looks a lot like its predecessor, but turn it over and you'll see the telltale signs of a new sensor. As with other Fitbit devices, the Fitbit HR can give you real-time heart-rate measurements throughout the day, and the new feature will also help you more efficiently measure the calories you burn.

David Duke, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and vocal white supremacist, was suspended from Twitter this morning. And then the social network restored his account , albeit with a reset follower count. Twitter hasn't commented on the initial decision to ban Duke, or why it brought him back, but we've reached out for clarification.

What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing ... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization, along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across ideological lines.

Adobe on Monday released updates to the iPhone and iPad versions of Lightroom, making various enhancements including the addition of "Authentic HDR," a new shooting mode.
The technology takes three photos to gauge the best exposure values, and will automatically align and "de-ghost" the resulting composite image, according to Adobe. Images are saved as 32-bit floating-point DNG RAW files.
Notably Adobe claims that its method is better than iOS 10's built-in HDR mode, which doesn't shoot in RAW and therefore automatically applies processing such as sharpening and noise reduction. Professional photographers typically prefer RAW for the leeway it allows in controlling post-processing.
The iPhone and iPad apps now also offer an improved rating system, and the option to export RAW files to a device's Camera Roll, which changes their format but also makes them more accessible.
Some other changes include faster, more stable cloud sync, which should moreover run in the background. A new widget is launched via the Notification Center, or else the app's homescreen icon on devices with 3D Touch —namely, the iPhone 6s and 7.

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. debuted on the stock market Thursday and immediately saw substantial gains on its first two days. But the excitement has already worn off, with shares tumbling more than 12 percent on day three.

GENEVA Volkswagen ( VOWG_p.DE ) will show off a fully self-driving car at the Geneva auto show, as part of the German carmaker's drive to be at the forefront of new technologies in the wake of its diesel emissions scandal.

I was visiting Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, outside London with a group of reporters to check out the Patty Jenkins-directed film, the first major female-led superhero movie of the modern era. The shooting we saw that day mostly consisted of Gadot climbing out of a trench on a greenscreen set and walking towards the camera (on a treadmill) as she deflected unseen bullets with her wrist gauntlets. It was pretty cool, but we also learned quite a bit about the film during our visit, so let’s break down some of the most intriguing bits. Here are 15 things we learned on the set of Wonder Woman.

This picture from early February is a good example of what the raw images from Juno's JunoCam can look like. NASA makes the images available for private citizens to download and process. Some of the most eye-catching Jupiter images from the Juno mission are the result of work by citizen scientists who combine and enhance the raw images into new creations that highlight the swirls and whirls of the planet's atmosphere.

Questionable stories may now show a “disputed” tag underneath, with a link to a source countering the article’s claims. Facebook said it works with ABC News, Politifact, FactCheck, Snopes, and the Associated Press to verify stories back in December.

Netflix has announced that it has joined Kim Seong-hun’s new thriller TV series Kingdom , with plans to bring to its streaming service worldwide in 2018 in partnership with Korean production company Astory. The eight-part series is set during Korea’s Joseon dynasty, an era that covered the 14th to late 19th century, and had a huge impact on Korean culture as it is known today. It follows a young crown prince sent on a suicidal investigation into a bizarre medical outbreak. Turns out said outbreak is a zombie apocalypse, and the prince’s forces have to hold back a threat that could destroy Korea and the wider world itself.

Sherman-Palladino has said she's open to another season. There's also plenty of motivation for stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel to get on board: According to Variety , the two earned about $750,000 per episode of the revival. That was money well spent, since the four 90-minute episodes averaged nearly 5 million viewers aged 18 to 47, per episode in the first three days. Between the money, Netflix's desire and the finale's cliffhanger, there's good reason to expect Lorelai and Rory to return soon.

If you’ve consumed any culture or downloaded an app in the last five years, the results probably won’t surprise you. The most installed apps are topped by a seemingly obvious list of popular social networks, and while top songs look like a complication of the biggest radio earworms from the last half-decade. Notably, many of the songs, albums, and movies are all recent releases, which speaks both to the popularity of that content, but also to increased Android growth (and therefore, Play Store usage) in recent years. It’s an interesting look back at how we consume media as a whole over the past half-decade.

Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms.

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So it seems that the DCEU’s take on Amazon society is an amalgam of several different incarnations of their comic origins, with a heavy dash of Greek mythology, albeit a not-at-all traditional version. Elements like mankind enslaving the race of warrior women played roles in both the Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis origins of the Amazons (where it was Hercules who enslaved them before they escaped to Paradise Island), and Zeus’ direct involvement in their creation seems to draw on him being Diana’s biological father in the New 52 incarnation of the character.

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After a shipping snafu with Amazon, I spent the better part of a day trying to track a Nintendo Switch down. I experienced exactly what many hopeful Switch owners will experience. I hounded Craigslist, and haunted Best Buy, and waited in a too-long line at GameStop. And now I’ve spent the last few days living the Switch life, playing the best it has to offer and I can say, unequivocally, that this system is not worth the hassle of tracking it down.

Walk around the streets of Beijing these days and the sidewalks are thronged with yellow and orange bicycles. These are the weapons of choice in one of the strangest, most colorful battles in the technology world.

Facebook originally promised to do this back in December (along with the fact checkers, curated articles and manual flagging ). Under this system, bogus posts from disreputable sites will still show up in your timeline, but they'll be accompanied by a small warning banner. These banners are applied after a lengthy vetting process. First, the fake post either has to be flagged by a certain number of users or the company's automated software. The post is then sent to a fact-checking website like Snopes or Politifact where it is reviewed. If two or more fact-checkers flag it again, Facebook will apply the banner.

Although it’s an undoubtedly cheap computer, it has the appearance of a much more expensive product. The outer casing of the device is made of bamboo and simple white acrylic. Both of which combine for a jaw-dropping gorgeous look that sets it apart from other rivals in its price range.

Hence, they invested $680 million in India’s Paytm in September 2015, just before demonetization stimulated Indians to open 200 million wallets on Paytm. In November 2016, Ant partnered with Thailand’s Ascend Money, which also runs a digital wallet service. Under the agreement, Ant Financial will assist Ascend Money to grow its online and offline payments and financial services ecosystem. It is notable that Ascend may be based in Thailand, but also operates in Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.

In other words, getting into the MQ was nice, but it could make it easy to lose focus and chase the wrong kind of deals. Most startups don't get this, believing that any customer is a good customer. As Langseth realizes, customer success is the primary driver of both startup success and Gartner Magic Quadrant success, and depends upon the company religiously focusing on serving the needs of its chosen customer personas. It's smart business, if somewhat rare among the startup set.

The government must now choose between disclosure of classified information and dismissal of its indictment. Disclosure is not currently an option. Dismissal without prejudice leaves open the possibility that the government could bring new charges should there come a time within the statute of limitations when and the government be in a position to provide the requested discovery.